(Porter Rockwell) Fifteen months after Joseph and Hyrum were murdered, Rockwell was watering his horse on the outskirts of Nauvoo when Sheriff Jacob Bakenstos rode his lathered horse onto the scene. Hot on his trail was a group of Carthage Greys, a paramilitary group responsible for Joseph Smith's security in the Carthage Jail. Bakenstos ordered Rockwell and another man to protect him "in the name of the State of Illinois, County of Hancock." Rockwell took aim at the lead rider's belt buckle and fired. Franklin A. Worrell "jumped four feet in the air and rolled away from his horse dead." He was the first of forty to one hundred men reportedly killed by Orrin Porter Rockwell throughout his life.
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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